27 May 2022 Design of a compressed hexagonal dual-core photonic crystal fiber polarization beam splitter with a liquid crystal filled air hole
Yanan Xu, Jinhui Yuan, Yuwei Qu, Shi Qiu, Xian Zhou, Binbin Yan, Kuiru Wang, Xinzhu Sang, Chongxiu Yu
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Abstract

A compressed hexagonal dual-core photonic crystal fiber (CH-DC-PCF) polarization beam splitter (PBS) with a liquid crystal filled air hole is designed. The designed CH-DC-PCF has different sizes of air holes, which are arranged in a compressed hexagonal structure in the cladding region and introduce the birefringence. In addition, the nematic liquid crystal is filled into the central air hole to enhance the beam splitting effect. To obtain a shorter PBS, the structure parameters of the CH-DC-PCF are optimized by the finite element method. The simulation results show that the length of the proposed CH-DC-PCF PBS is 109.5  μm, and the corresponding extinction ratio (ER) reaches the first peak value of 86.07 dB at wavelength 1.494  μm, then 63.14 dB at wavelength 1.55  μm, and the second peak value of 83.35 dB at wavelength 1.553  μm. Moreover, the ER is higher than 20 dB in the wavelength range of 1.402 to 1.682  μm, so the bandwidth of the PBS is up to ∼280  nm, covering the S  +  C  +  L  +  U communication band.

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Yanan Xu, Jinhui Yuan, Yuwei Qu, Shi Qiu, Xian Zhou, Binbin Yan, Kuiru Wang, Xinzhu Sang, and Chongxiu Yu "Design of a compressed hexagonal dual-core photonic crystal fiber polarization beam splitter with a liquid crystal filled air hole," Optical Engineering 61(5), 057104 (27 May 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.61.5.057104
Received: 23 February 2022; Accepted: 5 May 2022; Published: 27 May 2022
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KEYWORDS
Liquid crystals

Refractive index

Beam splitters

Optical engineering

Photonic crystal fibers

Polarization

Birefringence

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